"we will ensure that not only does your vote matter in Wisconsin, but it also counts."
Sorry, but they may be able to guarantee only the last part of the statement. Voting is a way of reducing a big number (the votes) to a small number (the elected). As this reduction factor is usually in the order of thousands (local) to even milions (presidential elections), the chance that your vote has any effect is likewise one in thousands to milions. Democracy is a way of deluding individual people that their single vote can influence the powers that be. That is not true: You can stay at home, and the outcome of an election will be exactly the same (minus that one vote).
The only way we can achieve a form of democracy in which your opinion may make a difference, is by creating a kind of moderated idea outliner where people can bring in their arguments and facts regarding any subject. Each fact/argument would be included only once. You would create openness, and improve the quality of decisions because smarter solutions can be considered. Even if those are not available, the stupidity of some solutions brought clearly forward helping to prevent politicians from implementing them.
Dutchmen can see a (primitive) example at www.democratie-nu.org
I divided the speed of light by the 2,6 GHz, resulting in a distance of 11.5 cm (one third of a foot, stupid). That is about the width of my head (I didn't realise that it was that narrow. Oh, hm. That explains why I didn't realise). Are they measuring some kind of amplification because of resonance at the opening of the tin foil hat? Oops, I used the speed of light in vacuum, 11.5 cm is only one wavelength if my head is empty, instead of water and fat based (I realise this remark doesn't help to off set the previous one). OK, for the sake of argument, let's assume the speed of light thru my head is 2E8 m/s. Then 2.6 GHz equals a wavelength of 7.7 cm, and the one at 1.2 GHz equals a wavelengths of 16.6 cm (front to back). I don't believe they have measurements with helmet but without head, so I don't know what antenna effect there could be. But surely one of the Slashdot readers can see something more intelligent on what is going on than the above ramblings.
If money went into the pockets of these senators, it would probable be more than enought to pay for developers to fix any shortcomings that OpenOffice or other OS suites may have with respect to accessibility.
What do you expect? That I'm going to divulgethe secret of getting a perfectly ordinary Powerbook like mine to start up in the short time mine takes?
The long start-up times are normal in the sense that it is not uncommon for people to have the problem. Such long times are, however, far from what you can expect from your Mac. And yes, I'm too busy to solve the problem for someone with your attitude. Before you visit Apple's forum to reduce the long upstart times you're experiencing, please note that the forum is moderated and the kind of reply you gave to me will not last long there.
Bert Who is shocked every time a Mac user is disrespectful and not polite.
Your Mac upstart times are not normal. My 1 GHz PB with 1 GB running Tiger took 52 seconds to start up. I recall some people experience a delay because of some networking issue (Mac keeps looking for something. Sorry that I'm short on details, this is all I recall), you may want to go to Apple's forum site to look for answers/help.
Well, even if you're a one person company, you probably have more than one computer. And even if you've only one, you can always buy another, running another OS.
This just not necessarily for you, but for those people that think you have to burn all ships. You can get your feet wet and see what works/what doesn't. And another thing (also not necessarily for you): Many people say some particular software is not available for another platform. I don't want to know the number of people that don't know that MS Office is available for Mac.
Well, that is what I did, so I can produce the answers. But I still can't figure out what the name of the game has to do with it. May it have to do with the fact that I'm a non-native speaker?
So, where can I buy my copy of M$ Office without the bugs that cost me time and my clients money? But with an alledged 90% profit margin on Office, how much more money does MS need before they are going to fix these bugs? Before they make the program more Mac-like so I can be more productive?
BTW, the English guy draws the wrong conclusion on open software. Why I as an employer keep eying open source software is simple: I can have the bugs fixed (and have features I need added to it). Sure, it costs money, but (and only now we come to the "let the market decide" - part), whether that is going to be done is in MY hands, without me being at the mercy of a molog that doesn't listen.
"But they won't get the same treatment. What if, by whatever stretch of logic, some proprietary software package will do the job better than an open source package will? "
It doesn't do the jobs of file exchange, competitive development of even better software, and future accessability of files as well. The bill contributes to ensure that this is looked after instead of short term gains.
The bill will help open software. If Microsoft wants a piece of the pie, they can have it. But they'll have to compete by quality and meeting (these) market demands, not by historic market dominance (and monopoly abuse).
As to the latter part: A manufacturer who currently sells a PC with Linux has already figured the technicalities out. And what makes you think they have to support it? And who do you think would buy those computers if Linux is on a partition? My guess is the people who either know Linux or have heard of it and are curious. I have to work with %$#$@$ Word and suffer from its bugs, and working with the Mac version, its non-Macness (command-G does what?). Do you really think that support would help me? The brunt of PC support is borne by friends/family/colleagues.
As to the first part of the argument: That is what a monopolist can do and which action, if true, constitutes abuse of a monopoly in my book.
Bert Hm, so apparently it is a good thing if a manufacturer doesn't patch? That explains something.
If I were a PC manufacturer, I'd bring out a PC with 2 hard disks/1 partitioned hard disk. One with Windows, one with Linux complete with a load of free software. The latter would be a nice selling point (people can always erase the Linux part if they don't want it). And it would distinguish my company from they grey masses and such a step would generate free publicity. Saves lots of money in advertising. Yet those PC manufacturers that do sell computers with Linux pre-installed, don't sell the same computer with both Windows and Linux. I can think of only one reason: I contend that Microsoft still abuses its near monopoly, afforded not by its quality but by its mass (i.e. abundance).
For years I've been considering to start teaching. I just love explaining science stuff. Used to be the scare of the secretaries at the office where I worked who had to type text they didn't understand, and didn't want to understand. When I nevertheless explained it to them they said: Hey, it isn't that difficult. So, maybe I've got a knack for it.
What is the science teacher market, these days like in the US? Any chance for fairly fluent, but non-native speakers of English?
Is that our planet? It is quite hard to distinguish anything.
I think I can see the north-west part of Australia at about 1/3rd of the movie, the land being amazingly black. At about 2/3rds one can see (in the topleft "corner") Saudi-Arabia, followed by northern Africa, both golden/yellowish. Now why is that so much brighter than the deserts of Australia.
I'm also surprised by the fact that we see the line where the sun goes down, which suggests that the Messenger is going into a retrograde direction. Isn't that unusual?
I'd expect a satellite that is to go to an inner orbit to pass outside the earth's orbit. That seems to pan out, because we start with something more like a sickle, going to "half earth".
I hired a secretary two months ago (part time). I run a patent agency and use Macs only, so my new secretary had to learn to work with it. After one month, she wasn't a happy gal, having to learn all this new stuff (mostly on her own as she works at home, and I should mention that she also had to learn a lot of new things like Skype not specifically related to the Mac).
During the last month, however, she started making remarks about all kinds of details, how smart Apple was to do a particular like they did, and that she was thinking too hard on how to accomplish things, where in fact they were pretty easy.
I believe she's happy with the Mac now, but: no pain, no gain.
Years ago, I read that some Japanese (company) had a very smart solution: Don't make the surface very hydrophobic, but very hydrophilic. No individual droplets will form, but rather a film of water is formed providing near perfect vision (hm, sorry, this foreigner has problems formulating this).
It is kind of a surprise, but then on Slashdot with all its nerds, it might be expected. Here is apparently someone who not only has the courage to indicate that his opinion is flawed, but also points out the (mathematical) errors in his opinion.
In other news: MS employee chockes on spam in cafetaria at the Redmond campus. Two fellow co-workers acted swiftly and used the Heimlich maneuver, which worked well. Said one of the co-workers "It was easy, we just had to apply way less pressure than on companies we want to buy/do our bidding".
Slashdot Mirror
"we will ensure that not only does your vote matter in Wisconsin, but it also counts."
Sorry, but they may be able to guarantee only the last part of the statement. Voting is a way of reducing a big number (the votes) to a small number (the elected). As this reduction factor is usually in the order of thousands (local) to even milions (presidential elections), the chance that your vote has any effect is likewise one in thousands to milions. Democracy is a way of deluding individual people that their single vote can influence the powers that be. That is not true: You can stay at home, and the outcome of an election will be exactly the same (minus that one vote).
The only way we can achieve a form of democracy in which your opinion may make a difference, is by creating a kind of moderated idea outliner where people can bring in their arguments and facts regarding any subject. Each fact/argument would be included only once. You would create openness, and improve the quality of decisions because smarter solutions can be considered. Even if those are not available, the stupidity of some solutions brought clearly forward helping to prevent politicians from implementing them.
Dutchmen can see a (primitive) example at www.democratie-nu.org
Bert
I divided the speed of light by the 2,6 GHz, resulting in a distance of 11.5 cm (one third of a foot, stupid). That is about the width of my head (I didn't realise that it was that narrow. Oh, hm. That explains why I didn't realise). Are they measuring some kind of amplification because of resonance at the opening of the tin foil hat? Oops, I used the speed of light in vacuum, 11.5 cm is only one wavelength if my head is empty, instead of water and fat based (I realise this remark doesn't help to off set the previous one). OK, for the sake of argument, let's assume the speed of light thru my head is 2E8 m/s. Then 2.6 GHz equals a wavelength of 7.7 cm, and the one at 1.2 GHz equals a wavelengths of 16.6 cm (front to back). I don't believe they have measurements with helmet but without head, so I don't know what antenna effect there could be. But surely one of the Slashdot readers can see something more intelligent on what is going on than the above ramblings.
Bert
Well, it is Korea, so perhaps the cat got eaten.
Bert
If money went into the pockets of these senators, it would probable be more than enought to pay for developers to fix any shortcomings that OpenOffice or other OS suites may have with respect to accessibility.
Bert
Who believes that is irony
What is the problem? Microsoft has shares in Apple. And Mac OS X has just what you want and need. So, in a sense it comes from Microsoft.
Bert
What do you expect? That I'm going to divulgethe secret of getting a perfectly ordinary Powerbook like mine to start up in the short time mine takes?
The long start-up times are normal in the sense that it is not uncommon for people to have the problem. Such long times are, however, far from what you can expect from your Mac. And yes, I'm too busy to solve the problem for someone with your attitude. Before you visit Apple's forum to reduce the long upstart times you're experiencing, please note that the forum is moderated and the kind of reply you gave to me will not last long there.
Bert
Who is shocked every time a Mac user is disrespectful and not polite.
This is where the network settings error kicks in (see my other post in reply to parent), so I recommend you take the same medicine.
Bert
Your Mac upstart times are not normal. My 1 GHz PB with 1 GB running Tiger took 52 seconds to start up. I recall some people experience a delay because of some networking issue (Mac keeps looking for something. Sorry that I'm short on details, this is all I recall), you may want to go to Apple's forum site to look for answers/help.
Bert
Well, even if you're a one person company, you probably have more than one computer. And even if you've only one, you can always buy another, running another OS.
This just not necessarily for you, but for those people that think you have to burn all ships. You can get your feet wet and see what works/what doesn't. And another thing (also not necessarily for you): Many people say some particular software is not available for another platform. I don't want to know the number of people that don't know that MS Office is available for Mac.
You can usually use more than one type computer.
Bert
If you've seen its predecessor; it is the same size, except that it is a bit thinner.
Bert
Who thinks Apple uses smaller zero's and ones to accomplish that.
Well, that is what I did, so I can produce the answers. But I still can't figure out what the name of the game has to do with it. May it have to do with the fact that I'm a non-native speaker?
Bert
So, where can I buy my copy of M$ Office without the bugs that cost me time and my clients money? But with an alledged 90% profit margin on Office, how much more money does MS need before they are going to fix these bugs? Before they make the program more Mac-like so I can be more productive?
BTW, the English guy draws the wrong conclusion on open software. Why I as an employer keep eying open source software is simple: I can have the bugs fixed (and have features I need added to it). Sure, it costs money, but (and only now we come to the "let the market decide" - part), whether that is going to be done is in MY hands, without me being at the mercy of a molog that doesn't listen.
Bert
"But they won't get the same treatment. What if, by whatever stretch of logic, some proprietary software package will do the job better than an open source package will? "
It doesn't do the jobs of file exchange, competitive development of even better software, and future accessability of files as well. The bill contributes to ensure that this is looked after instead of short term gains.
The bill will help open software. If Microsoft wants a piece of the pie, they can have it. But they'll have to compete by quality and meeting (these) market demands, not by historic market dominance (and monopoly abuse).
Bert
As to the latter part: A manufacturer who currently sells a PC with Linux has already figured the technicalities out. And what makes you think they have to support it? And who do you think would buy those computers if Linux is on a partition? My guess is the people who either know Linux or have heard of it and are curious. I have to work with %$#$@$ Word and suffer from its bugs, and working with the Mac version, its non-Macness (command-G does what?). Do you really think that support would help me? The brunt of PC support is borne by friends/family/colleagues.
As to the first part of the argument: That is what a monopolist can do and which action, if true, constitutes abuse of a monopoly in my book.
Bert
Hm, so apparently it is a good thing if a manufacturer doesn't patch? That explains something.
If I were a PC manufacturer, I'd bring out a PC with 2 hard disks/1 partitioned hard disk. One with Windows, one with Linux complete with a load of free software. The latter would be a nice selling point (people can always erase the Linux part if they don't want it). And it would distinguish my company from they grey masses and such a step would generate free publicity. Saves lots of money in advertising. Yet those PC manufacturers that do sell computers with Linux pre-installed, don't sell the same computer with both Windows and Linux. I can think of only one reason: I contend that Microsoft still abuses its near monopoly, afforded not by its quality but by its mass (i.e. abundance).
Bert
you still get a degree!
Bert
For years I've been considering to start teaching. I just love explaining science stuff. Used to be the scare of the secretaries at the office where I worked who had to type text they didn't understand, and didn't want to understand. When I nevertheless explained it to them they said: Hey, it isn't that difficult. So, maybe I've got a knack for it.
What is the science teacher market, these days like in the US? Any chance for fairly fluent, but non-native speakers of English?
Bert
According to this review, it can not be used as a bootable drive.
Bert
If so, as open source fans, should we buy stock to help ensure that Trolltech doesn't move off the right track?
Bert
Because your 44 character post is puny in comparison to an MPEG movie.
That, and Slashdot knows it is slashdotted everyday instead of once in a blue moon, so they have a zippie server to handle things.
Bert
Is that our planet? It is quite hard to distinguish anything.
I think I can see the north-west part of Australia at about 1/3rd of the movie, the land being amazingly black. At about 2/3rds one can see (in the topleft "corner") Saudi-Arabia, followed by northern Africa, both golden/yellowish. Now why is that so much brighter than the deserts of Australia.
I'm also surprised by the fact that we see the line where the sun goes down, which suggests that the Messenger is going into a retrograde direction. Isn't that unusual?
I'd expect a satellite that is to go to an inner orbit to pass outside the earth's orbit. That seems to pan out, because we start with something more like a sickle, going to "half earth".
Bert
I hired a secretary two months ago (part time). I run a patent agency and use Macs only, so my new secretary had to learn to work with it. After one month, she wasn't a happy gal, having to learn all this new stuff (mostly on her own as she works at home, and I should mention that she also had to learn a lot of new things like Skype not specifically related to the Mac).
During the last month, however, she started making remarks about all kinds of details, how smart Apple was to do a particular like they did, and that she was thinking too hard on how to accomplish things, where in fact they were pretty easy.
I believe she's happy with the Mac now, but: no pain, no gain.
Bert
Years ago, I read that some Japanese (company) had a very smart solution: Don't make the surface very hydrophobic, but very hydrophilic. No individual droplets will form, but rather a film of water is formed providing near perfect vision (hm, sorry, this foreigner has problems formulating this).
Didn't hear much about it later, though.
Bert
It is kind of a surprise, but then on Slashdot with all its nerds, it might be expected. Here is apparently someone who not only has the courage to indicate that his opinion is flawed, but also points out the (mathematical) errors in his opinion.
Bert
In other news:
MS employee chockes on spam in cafetaria at the Redmond campus.
Two fellow co-workers acted swiftly and used the Heimlich maneuver, which worked well. Said one of the co-workers "It was easy, we just had to apply way less pressure than on companies we want to buy/do our bidding".
Bert